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#1 2004-04-30 18:31:00

ERRORIST
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Re: Are these springs flowing from Endurance crater?

Enlarge this image,and look near the bedrock on the right side. It looks like numerous springs can be flowing from time to time.Any thoughts?

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ … ...1M1.JPG

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#2 2004-05-04 08:58:47

Ian Flint
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Re: Are these springs flowing from Endurance crater?

I don't see what you mean.

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#3 2004-05-04 09:02:09

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Re: Are these springs flowing from Endurance crater?

Under the bedrock outcropping on the right side you can see flow lines or gullies.

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#4 2004-05-04 09:07:01

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Re: Are these springs flowing from Endurance crater?

*Darker-colored patches of sand, my guess. 

Ooooo...those little (?) gentle depressions in the ground here and there are groovy.  smile

--Cindy


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#5 2004-05-04 19:28:57

Shaun Barrett
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Re: Are these springs flowing from Endurance crater?

How about small, slow-moving, underground streams of brine gradually dissolving the sedimentary layers and causing subsidence, as the explanation for the gentle depressions?  ???

    Just another 2 cents worth from a man unburdened by years of dreary geology lectures and thus free to make wild guesses about things he doesn't understand!   :laugh:


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#6 2004-05-04 19:46:39

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Re: Are these springs flowing from Endurance crater?

Sounds like a very good explanation. The depressions look like sink holes starting to form.

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